TY - JOUR
KW - Adult
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - Immunodiffusion
KW - Immunoglobulin A, Secretory
KW - Immunoglobulin G
KW - Immunoglobulin M
KW - Immunoglobulins
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Saliva
AU - Saha K
AU - Chakraborty A K
AB - <p>A significant reduction in salivary immunoglobulins in lepromatous leprosy is recorded as compared to normal subjects. Saliva of undernourished subjects and patients with oral malignant tumors, which were studied as controls, showed an appreciable rise in IgA levels in both. It is suggested that impairment of T cell function, which is associated with lepromatous leprosy, is not responsible for the observed low level of salivary immunoglobulins in lepromatous leprosy.</p>
BT - International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/411761?dopt=Abstract
DA - 1977 Jul-Sep
IS - 3
J2 - Int. J. Lepr. Other Mycobact. Dis.
LA - eng
N2 - <p>A significant reduction in salivary immunoglobulins in lepromatous leprosy is recorded as compared to normal subjects. Saliva of undernourished subjects and patients with oral malignant tumors, which were studied as controls, showed an appreciable rise in IgA levels in both. It is suggested that impairment of T cell function, which is associated with lepromatous leprosy, is not responsible for the observed low level of salivary immunoglobulins in lepromatous leprosy.</p>
PY - 1977
SP - 261
EP - 5
T2 - International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association
TI - Immunologic aspects of lepromatous leprosy as related to the immunoglobulins of external secretions: salivary immunoglobulins.
VL - 45
SN - 0148-916X
ER -